Capitol Hill Theatre

645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20003

Unfavorite 1 person favorited this theater

Showing all 4 comments

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on July 19, 2010 at 4:29 pm

Nice photo KenRoe.

KenRoe
KenRoe on February 1, 2009 at 4:25 am

Here is a 1920 photograph of the Avenue Grand Theatre, a current view of the site and some more details:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/5453?

lostmemory
lostmemory on October 1, 2007 at 7:59 am

A Moller theater organ opus 2921 size 2/8 was installed in the Avenue Grand Theater in 1920.

rlvjr
rlvjr on December 31, 2006 at 7:22 pm

Theaterowner DON KING did a really smart thing taking over the shabby Avenue Grand double feature house and playing first run exclusives at higher admission prices. Being the only theater showing a particular movie would lure people into the then-crime-ridden Capitol Hill neighborhood. Eventually though, high crime under Washington’s cocaine sniffing mayor Marion Barry (D) got the best of this place. Burning the theatre down was the final straw.